Church of St Leonard, Reighton
Description: Church of St Leonard
Grade: II*
Date Listed: 30 June 1966
English Heritage Building ID: 327025
OS Grid Reference: TA1513574699
OS Grid Coordinates: 515135, 474699
Latitude/Longitude: 54.1552, -0.2384
Location: Main Street, Reighton, North Yorkshire YO14 9TD
Locality: Reighton
Local Authority: Scarborough
County: North Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: YO14 9TD
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Listing Text
TA 17 SE REIGHTON THE VILLAGE STREET
(north side, off)
Speeton
9/88 Church of St Leonard
30.6.66
GV II*
Church. Early C12, with restorations 1905, 1911, 1976. Squared sandstone
on plinth, with pantile roof. Nave and chancel, west tower. 3-stage,
stepped tower with swept, pyramidal roof. Round-headed bell openings to all
faces of upper stage. C20 door in flat topped opening in south wall with a
variety of windows in enlarged openings to right. A rudimentary mass clock
is scratched into the quoins to the right of the centre window. C19 lancets
Flank tower. No openings to north and east. Interior: early C12 chancel
arch on quoined jambs with chamfered abaci. Two trefoil-headed piscinae in
north chancel wall. To right of sanctuary, a statue niche with carved
bracketed base and a portion of carved canopy, and square projecting alns
box. Portions of Anglo-Danish carving incorporated in masonry at the west
end of the north wall. Norman tub font.
Listing NGR: TA1513574699
Source: English Heritage
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